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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrigoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

origodb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

origodb.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

1985

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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